Winick, Gary 1961(?)–

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Winick, Gary 1961(?)–

PERSONAL

Born c. 1961. Religion: Jewish.

Addresses: Office—Independent Digital Entertainment, 135 West 26th St., 12th Floor, New York, NY 10001. Agent—David Lonner, William Morris Agency, 1 William Morris Pl., Beverly Hills, CA 90212. Manager—Rosalie Swedlin, Industry Entertainment, 955 South Carrillo Dr., 3rd Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90048.

Career: Producer, director, and film editor. Independent Digital Entertainment (also known as InDigEnt), New York City, cofounder, 1999, partner, and film producer; New York University, teacher of film classes.

Awards, Honors: Audience Award, most popular feature, Hamptons International Film Festival, 1998, and Glass Bear and Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk Grand Prix, both best feature film, Berlin International Film Festival, 1999, all for The Tic Code; Directors Award and nomination for Grand Jury Prize, both dramatic category, Sundance Film Festival, 2002, for Tadpole; John Cassavetes Award (with others), Independent Spirit Awards, Independent Features Project/West, 2003, for Personal Velocity: Three Portraits; John Cassavetes Award nomination (with others), 2004, for Pieces of April.

CREDITS

Film Producer:

(And director) Sweet Nothing, Warner Bros., 1996.

(And director) Sam the Man, Collective Voice/Greene Street Films, 2000.

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee, InDigEnt/MAG Digital, 2001.

Ten Tiny Love Stories (also known as Women Remember Men), Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment, 2001.

Women in Film, Lions Gate Films, 2001.

Tape, Lions Gate Films, 2001.

Final, Lions Gate Films, 2001.

Chelsea Walls (also known as Chelsea Hotel), Lions Gate Films, 2002.

(And director) Tadpole, Miramax, 2002.

Personal Velocity: Three Portraits (also known as Personal Velocity), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 2002.

Pieces of April, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 2003.

Co-executive producer, Uptown Girls, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 2003.

November, Sony Pictures Classics, 2005.

Land of Plenty, IFC Films, 2005.

Lonesome Jim, IFC Films, 2005.

Pizza, IFC Films, 2005.

Sorry, Haters, IFC Films, 2005.

Kill the Poor, IFC Films, 2006.

Puccini for Beginners, Pretty Pictures, 2006.

Flakes, InDigEnt, 2006.

Film Director:

Curfew, New World, 1989.

Out of the Rain (also known as End of Innocence), Artisan Entertainment, 1991.

The Tic Code, Avalanche Releasing, 1999.

13 Going On 30 (also known as Suddenly 30), Columbia, 2004.

Charlotte's Web, Paramount, 2006.

Film Editor:

Phinehas (short film), 1996.

Dead Broke, 1999, Polychrome Pictures, 2005.

Baby Steps (short film), 1999.

Loser Love, 1999.

Television Producer:

(And editor) Punk (special), PBS, 1986.

Coproducer, Remembering Sex (also known as Getting Off), 1998.

ADAPTATIONS

The 2002 film Tadpole was based on a story by Winick.

OTHER SOURCES

Electronic:

Independent Digital Entertainment, http://www.indigent.net, indigent.net, September 15, 2006.